[Edmund Wojtyła (1906-1932), doctor in the Public Hospital in Bielsko: victim of profession].

Edmund Wojtyla was born on 27 July 1906 in Krakow. He passed the examination for the secondary-school certificate in 1924 in Wadowice and in 1930 he graduated in medicine from the Medical Faculty of Jagiellonian University. In 1931 he began work as a physician in the State Hospital in Bielsko. He caught scarlet fever from a female patient and died on 4 December 1932. Edmund Wojtyla was the older brother of Pope John Paul II.